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Levees as a System of Reclaiming Low Lands
“Levee (French), for raising, removing, taking off, breaking up; embankment, embanking, bank, causeway; mole; swell;-faire une levee,‒to embank; to make a stand;‒levee d'un siege,‒raising a siege; levee de terre, embankment, mound.”
Levees; or embankments, or dikes as adjuncts to systems of reclamation, drainage and irrigation, have been in use since the very earliest times.
The Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, Hindoos, Chinese and other nations, built dikes and dams for reclamation, and leveed canals for drainage, irrigation and navigation.
Levees as a System of Reclaiming Low Lands
“Levee (French), for raising, removing, taking off, breaking up; embankment, embanking, bank, causeway; mole; swell;-faire une levee,‒to embank; to make a stand;‒levee d'un siege,‒raising a siege; levee de terre, embankment, mound.”
Levees; or embankments, or dikes as adjuncts to systems of reclamation, drainage and irrigation, have been in use since the very earliest times.
The Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, Hindoos, Chinese and other nations, built dikes and dams for reclamation, and leveed canals for drainage, irrigation and navigation.
Levees as a System of Reclaiming Low Lands
Bayley, George W. R. (Autor:in)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 5 ; 115-146
01.01.2021
321876-01-01 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
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Levees as a system for reclaiming low lands
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